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` I formptional Memo for November 20 Meeting P age3 If anybody on the Council desires to participate in the ICMA RC program, we can certainly start issuing W-2 forms to all Council members for their yearly pay and have this placed into the coporation / through the payroll withholdings. I have some brochures available in my office if any Council member wishes to review this information" 9" Attached for your information are three for October, 1984, from the Fire Department, Police Department and Maintenance Department" 10" HIMMOM_UMAT A. At the and of the last City Council meeting, Dorothy Lyons approached the Council to discuss the that goes through and along their property. After briefly listening to Dorothy, the Council requested that she provide the staff with material and get placed on the next agenda" This was requested so that the staff could provide background information to the Council on the issue at hand" To date, Dorothy has not approached the staff to get placed on the agenda and efforts to contact her have not been successful. I have placed Public Inquiries on the agenda in case Dororthy decides to make an appearance at this next Coucil meeting" I did not see the need to request the Washington County Parks Director,, Jack Perkovichv to attend this meeting as this may only result in the City listening to two quite opposite and contrary stories" There are legal issues being decided by the courts between the Hammes' and the County and the City should not get in the middle of an existing, difficult situation. The staff feels that this Regional Park entrance road is an issue in which the Hammes' should deal directly with the County. B. M1Q0g~P1CMit The Hammes' mining permit is up for renewal and is on the December 4 City Council agenda" We have sent all the material to the Hammes', but, to date, have not received any information back" (All the Shafer information has been returned and, from the staffs perspective, is acceptable.) The staff does not believe that we should "babysit« the individuals applying for CUP renewals as this is their financial livelihood and the applicants must accept the burden of submitting adequate information in a timely manner. C. GgalEMl : Last year when the mining permit was renewed for the Hammes' there was an extensive discussion, on the Councils part, relating to other City Code violations. It was clearly indicated to the staff that the mining permit renewal should only be based on the mining operation. There were and there are no code violations that relate directly to the Hammes mining operation. However, there are still extensive violations of the City Code relating to junk vehicles, outside storage and rubbish, structures not on perm�anent foundations, etc. The staff has been trying to get compliance with the City Code in these other areas since 1983, but, have not been successful" We have requested the Hammes` to keep us informed on their efforts to clean up their enviornment and to comply with the City Code but no correspondence has been received. Short of issuing citations and going to court, the staff's hands are virtually tied in this case" Even if we do issue citations, once an effort toward compliance is made by the Hammes' then the courts generally ` offer decisions that are favorable to the applicant because of the apparent effort to comply" The Council should he reminded that many Twin City residents going to the Regional Park will have their only exposure to Lake Elmo by driving along the Hammes property" This property in effect will be ''the window to our community" and we should